A Showy Display

1 John 2:15-17 says:   "Do not love either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him;  because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world.  Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains forever."

I think the expression "the showy display of one's means of life" is a very good description of the Designer Label world we are presently living in.

Jean and I had a lovely morning on the doors on Tuesday - and I visited Maggie this afternoon. She was quite traumatised by the fact that she was in a different dining room - the usual one is being re-decorated - and that when we got back to her room, it was still in the process of being cleaned, the bed not yet made.

When someone has lost nearly all of their words, its impossible to explain what is happening. Anyway, I went and found a kind nurse, and we got the bed made and we got Maggie settled.  But she looked much frailer than usual, and clung a bit when I had to go.

But John was in to see her in the morning and I expect she will have another visitor or two before I next go.  Its all very sad though. And such a lovely spring day - blossom, daffodils under the trees.  But Maggie and I are not in the Spring of our lives.

Which brings me back to 1 John, which assures us that "the one who does the will of God remains forever".  So I hope that Maggie and I have "unnumbered springs" ahead of us in the restored earthly Paradise.